Men are nearly always willing to believe what they wish.

No, I never saw an angel, but it is irrelevant whether I saw one or not. I feel their presence around me.

I am in politics because of the conflict between good and evil, and I believe that in the end good will triumph.

I don’t argue when people say that my message is simple, but I believe Jesus‘ message was simple.

God hangs the greatest weights upon the smallest wires.

The most distressing thing that can happen to a prophet is to be proved wrong. The next most distressing thing is to be proved right.

Suspicion is not less an enemy to virtue than to happiness; he that is already corrupt is naturally suspicious, and he that becomes suspicious will quickly be corrupt.

I shall never be a heretic; I may err in dispute, but I do not wish to decide anything finally; on the other hand, I am not bound by the opinions of men.

It is curious how instinctively one protects the image of oneself from idolatry or any other handling that could make it ridiculous, or too unlike the original to be believed any longer.

Keep a good attitude and do the right thing even when it’s hard. When you do that you are passing the test. And God promises you your marked moments are on their way.

No man is much good unless he believes in God and obeys His laws.

Women deeply want men who are competent and powerful. And I don’t mean power in that they can exert tyrannical control over others. That’s not power. That’s just corruption.

The advantage of the emotions is that they lead us astray.

Sometimes the first duty of intelligent men is the restatement of the obvious.

Through the ages, many of His children have had access to the blessings of the gospel, but many more have not.

People forget that Mozart wrote for commissions. There’s a thing in psychology where they think if it’s popular, it can’t be serious.

Base souls have no faith in great individuals.

What convinces is conviction. Believe in the argument you’re advancing. If you don’t you’re as good as dead. The other person will sense that something isn’t there, and no chain of reasoning, no matter how logical or elegant or brilliant, will win your case for you.

Liberty means responsibility. That is why most men dread it.

Men can only be happy when they do not assume that the object of life is happiness.

Cursing is invoking the assistance of a spirit to help you inflict suffering. Swearing on the other hand, is invoking, only the witness of a spirit to an statement you wish to make.

The fellow that can only see a week ahead is always the popular fellow, for he is looking with the crowd. But the one that can see years ahead, he has a telescope but he can’t make anybody believe that he has it.

To be an atheist requires an indefinitely greater measure of faith than to recieve all the great truths which atheism would deny.

All men are children, and of one family. The same tale sends them all to bed, and wakes them in the morning.

The degree of one’s emotions varies inversely with one’s knowledge of the facts.

To believe in God is impossible not to believe in Him is absurd.

The writer must believe that what he is doing is the most important thing in the world. And he must hold to this illusion even when he knows it is not true.

Faith is about trusting God when you have unanswered questions.

I cannot believe in a God who wants to be praised all the time.

Faith is a living, daring confidence in God’s grace, so sure and certain that a man could stake his life on it a thousand times.

In the absence of any other proof, the thumb alone would convince me of God’s existence.

Men never do evil so completely and cheerfully as when they do it from religious conviction.

You entertain people who are satisfied. Hungry people can’t be entertained – or people who are afraid. You can’t entertain a man who has no food.

I do not feel obliged to believe that the same God who has endowed us with sense, reason, and intellect has intended us to forgo their use.

No honest writer today can possibly avoid being influenced by Freud through his pioneering work into the Unconscious and by the influence of those discoveries on the scientific, philosophic, and artistic work of his contemporaries: but not, by any means, necessarily through Freud’s own writing.

The people respect and believe in men who fulfill their duty.

The collective unconscious consists of the sum of the instincts and their correlates, the archetypes. Just as everybody possesses instincts, so he also possesses a stock of archetypal images.

If you are part of a religion that very strongly insists that you believe then to decide not to do that is quite a big hurdle to jump over. You never forget the thought process you went through. It becomes part of your whole intellectual picture.

I’m a strict, strict agnostic. It’s very different from a casual, ‚I don’t know.‘ It’s that you cannot present as knowledge something that is not knowledge. You can present it as faith, you can present it as belief, but you can’t present it as fact.

The only limit to our realization of tomorrow will be our doubts of today.

When you become a Christian, something truly amazing happens: God comes to live inside your heart. You become the home of God.

Man has the power to act as his own destroyer – and that is the way he has acted through most of his history.

Every day that goes by puts us closer to the day when Christ will return.

The highest revelation is that God is in every man.

The way to see by Faith is to shut the Eye of Reason.

Conversion is not my intention. Changing religion is not easy. You may develop some kind of confusion or difficulties.

It is an interesting question how far men would retain their relative rank if they were divested of their clothes.

People respond in accordance to how you relate to them. If you approach them on the basis of violence, that’s how they’ll react. But if you say, ‚We want peace, we want stability,‘ we can then do a lot of things that will contribute towards the progress of our society.

God helps those who help themselves.

A casual stroll through the lunatic asylum shows that faith does not prove anything.

I’m trying to make God more relevant in our society.

States are as the men, they grow out of human characters.

I’m not denyin‘ the women are foolish. God Almighty made ‚em to match the men.

I regard the brain as a computer which will stop working when its components fail. There is no heaven or afterlife for broken down computers; that is a fairy story for people afraid of the dark.

He who has faith has… an inward reservoir of courage, hope, confidence, calmness, and assuring trust that all will come out well – even though to the world it may appear to come out most badly.

My faith was tested like Job. That’s the message I try to tell other people: just because you believe in God, serve God, feed the hungry, clothe the naked, people gotta realize, it don’t mean things not gonna happen to you.

When a hundred men stand together, each of them loses his mind and gets another one.

We teach that God’s love for His children is infinite.

Faith: not wanting to know what is true.

Understand: any phenomenon in the world is by nature complex. The people you deal with are equally complex. Any action sets off a limitless chain of reactions. It is never so simple as A leads to B. B will lead to C, D and beyond.

The components of anxiety, stress, fear, and anger do not exist independently of you in the world. They simply do not exist in the physical world, even though we talk about them as if they do.